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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
"In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. "I have heard from a certain man in the Church, who was thought to have a knowledge of the Scriptures, that these verses are to be explained in this way: while you remain in the present world, and while you are able to do good work, work hard so that afterwards you may be without worry in the day of wickedness, that is the day of judgement, when you will see …
Bonaventure
Here is noted the fourth instruction, by which he teaches that diligent discretion must be exercised regarding merits, because they are very hidden. Therefore he says: "These things also I saw in the day of my birth," that is, after I was born, "I saw" this happen: "The just man perishes in his justice," because he is regarded as though he were impious: Isaiah 57: "The just man perishes, and no one considers it." "And the impious man lives a long time in his impiety," as if he were just: at which Jeremiah was indignant, chapter 12: …
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